Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel will succeed Dr. Robert D. Truog as the next Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, effective July 1, 2023.
Rémy Furrer, PhD and Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, PhD, JD of the Center recently coauthored a paper with Shai Carmi, PhD and Todd Lencz, PhD in the American Journal of Bioethics.
Center Director Robert Truog, MD, MA authored a JAMA Viewpoint article on the present state of how brain death is determined; the critiques that have been made of that state of affairs; and possible paths forward.
Center Director Robert D. Truog, MD, MA was quoted in an article on a state bill proposed by some Massachusetts legislators that would allow persons in jail to donate organs in exchange for reductions to their sentences.
Center fellowship alum Jonah Rubin, MD, has published an article, "Autonomy to a fault: The confluence of organ donation, euthanasia, and the dead donor rule."
Center Director of Reproductive Ethics Louise King, MD, JD was quoted in a Time article on the risk to the lives of disabled people that has resulted from the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Center Associate Director Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD spoke with Medscape Medical News about a proposed Canadian law that would expand the eligibility criteria for MAID to include serious mental illness.